World number one Novak Djokovic begins his 2012 Grand Slam campaign against Paolo Lorenzi on Day Two of the Australian Open in Melbourne Park.
The 2012 Australian Open began in the early hours of today, Monday, and there were 64 matches played across the 16 courts in Melbourne Park. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer thrilled the crowds on Day One and Day Two sees the world number one, Novak Djokovic, make his bow in the year's first Grand Slam tournament.
The reigning Australian Open champion will take on Italy's Paolo Lorenzi in Rod Laver and his match will follow an intriguing women's singles clash between Vera Dushevina of Russia and second seed Petra Kvitova. Kvitova is the 5/2 favourite at bet365 to win the Australian Open but this will be a tough first round match for the Czech.
Djokovic will, of course, thrill the crowd but the roof will truly be blown off Rod Laver later in the day when Samantha Stosur and Lleyton Hewitt both take to the centre court in Melbourne. The Australian crowd were celebrating a thrilling win for Bernard Tomic against Fernando Verdasco on Day One and they will be expecting more home heroes on Tuesday.
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Australian Open Order of Play - Tuesday January 17th
Rod Laver Arena 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Vera Dushevina (RUS) v. Petra Kvitova (CZE)[2]
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Novak Djokovic (SRB)[1] v. Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Samantha Stosur (AUS)[6] v. Sorana Cirstea (ROU)
Rod Laver Arena 7:00 PM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) v. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Tamira Paszek (AUT) v. Serena Williams (USA)[12]
Hisense Arena 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Maria Kirilenko (RUS)[27] v. Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Gisela Dulko (ARG) v. Maria Sharapova (RUS)[4]
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Andy Murray (GBR)[4] v. Ryan Harrison (USA)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Robin Haase (NED) v. Andy Roddick (USA)[15]
Margaret Court Arena 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Rui Machado (POR) v. David Ferrer (ESP)[5]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Jelena Dokic (AUS) v. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Marinko Matosevic (AUS) v. Gael Monfils (FRA)[14]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) v. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)[18]
Margaret Court Arena 7:00 PM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Denis Istomin (UZB) v. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)[6]
Show Court 2 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Andreas Seppi (ITA) v. Richard Gasquet (FRA)[17]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Zvonareva (RUS)[7] v. Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Joao Souza (BRA) v. Matthew Ebden (AUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) v. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)[21]
Show Court 3 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Sabine Lisicki (GER)[14] v. Stefanie Voegele (SUI)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Jurgen Zopp (EST) v. James Duckworth (AUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Virginie Razzano (FRA) v. Marion Bartoli (FRA)[9]
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Gilles Simon (FRA)[12] v. Danai Udomchoke (THA)
Court 5 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Santiago Giraldo (COL) v. Matteo Viola (ITA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Mandy Minella (LUX) v. Jamie Hampton (USA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Sloane Stephens (USA) v. Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) v. Dudi Sela (ISR)
Court 6 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Stephane Robert (FRA) v. Kei Nishikori (JPN)[24]
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Tatsuma Ito (JPN) v. Potito Starace (ITA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) v. Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Angelique Kerber (GER)[30] v. Bojana Bobusic (AUS)
Court 7 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Shahar Peer (ISR) v. Isabella Holland (AUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)[17] v. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Marcel Granollers (ESP)[26] v. Jesse Levine (USA)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Julien Benneteau (FRA) v. Karol Beck (SVK)
Court 8 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Shuai Zhang (CHN) v. Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)[27] v. Michael Russell (USA)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Nicolas Mahut (FRA) v. Radek Stepanek (CZE)[29]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Madison Keys (USA) v. Jie Zheng (CHN)
Court 10 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) v. Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Rebecca Marino (CAN) v. Greta Arn (HUN)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Matthias Bachinger (GER) v. Ryan Sweeting (USA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Stephanie Dubois (CAN) v. Elena Vesnina (RUS) Australian Open 2012
Court 11 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) v. Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Michael Llodra (FRA) v. Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Kristina Barrois (GER) v. Michaella Krajicek (NED)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) v. Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ)
Court 13 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) v. Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)[32]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Johanna Larsson (SWE) v. Kaia Kanepi (EST)[25]
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Roberta Vinci (ITA)[23] v. Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP) v. Ricardo Mello (BRA)
Court 15 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) v. Andrey Golubev (KAZ)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Alison Riske (USA) v. Urszula Radwanska (POL)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Frederico Gil (POR) v. Ivan Dodig (CRO)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Iryna Bremond (FRA) v. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)
Court 18 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)[15] v. Klara Zakopalova (CZE)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)[9] v. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) v. Nadia Petrova (RUS)[29]
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Viktor Troicki (SRB)[19] v. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)
Court 19 11:00 AM Start Time
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) v. Vania King (USA)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Milos Raonic (CAN)[23] v. Filippo Volandri (ITA)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) v. Pablo Andujar (ESP)
Court 21 11:00 AM Start Time
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Lukas Rosol (CZE) v. Philipp Petzschner (GER)
- Men's Singles - 1st Round: Xavier Malisse (BEL) v. Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
- Women's Singles - 1st Round: Valeria Savinykh (RUS) v. Sara Errani (ITA)
